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First Photos of the Reentry of the ATV "Jules Verne"

Posted by kdawson on from the down-in-flames-seventy-five-km-up dept.

White Yeti writes with news of the reentry breakup of the ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle. All went as planned, and the ESA blog has preliminary photos. An international team of observers, in two aircraft south of Tahiti, saw a series of explosions and over a hundred small pieces of debris. Observations were mostly made using optical cameras and spectrographs. The two images on the ESA site are low-res samples, so we should get more spectacular images soon.

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  1. Re:Camera phone funding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Back in my day, we didn't have fancy pictures to goatse people with - we had to stretch out our own assholes! Now get off my lawn you damn spoiled brats!

    --Sen. John McCain

  2. Re:Camera phone funding by 4D6963 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Ha! So you had assholes! Back in my day, we had to sharpen wooden rods against rocks first and then sit on them!

    --
    You just got troll'd!